Improvement in folding tables



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Folding-Tables.

Patented Dec. 29, 1874.

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NICHOLAS S. TIEMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JOHN A.

- TIEMANN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,336, dated December29, 1874; application filed September 26, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NICHOLAS S. TIEMANN, of New York city, in the countyand State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Folding Table,of which the following is a specification:

The invention consists of a combination of jointed braces andconnecting-bars, jointed legs, and a jointed table-top, in such a mannerthat the legs are caused to fold and unfold and assume their proper.position in each condition by the top when it is folded and unfolded,thus affording a very simple and convenient folding table, requiring nocare or skill beyond the closing-and opening the top for adjusting it.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved table. Fig. 2 is a plan ofthe table inverted. Figure 3 is an end elevation of it in the foldedcondition.

The top A is divided in two parts at the middle, B, and hinged togetherby joints O in the frame 'neces D, which meet at the joint of the top.The legs E are jointed to these framepieces at their outer ends, andalso connected to them by braces F, the braces being pivoted to the legsand connected to the frame-pieces in a long slot, G, allowing them toslide toward and from the joints H. Coincident with the joints I of thebraces with the legs, rods or bars J are pivoted to the legs, connectingthem with pendants K from the hinge-joints G, the rods being jointed tothe pendants in the plane of their connection with the legs, and thependants being jointed at O. The combination of. these connecting-barsand pendants with the braces and legs has the effect of preventing thelegs from spreading apart when the table is set up, which the bracescould not prevent, on account of the slots, which are necessary to allowthe legs to fold, and they also draw the legs into the vertical positionor perpendicular to the table-top when the table'is unfoldech and thebraces prevent them from being drawn beyond the proper position by theupper ends coming against the inner ends of the slots. By the joints ofthe bars with the pendants being the same distance below the pivots Ethat the joints I are, these rods offer no resistance to the folding ofthe legs into line with the framepieces D, as in Fig. l, for which thebraces are connected to the said pieces by the slots. L representslockinghooks on the under side of the legs, for fastening the tableopen.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is- I The combination of the jointedconnectingbars J and the pendants K with the top and legs of a foldingtable, substantially as herein described, for the purpose specified.

NICHOLAS S. TIEMANN. Witnesses:

DANL. F. TIEMANN, JOHN A. TIEMANN.

